Sentence examples for shipbuilding activities from inspiring English sources

To fill this growing need for swift passage from Panama to California, shipbuilding activities increased dramatically.

Following the engagement at New Bern, the 21st was among the regiments selected for an expedition to destroy the Dismal Swamp Canal which would cripple the Confederacy's shipbuilding activities at Norfolk, Virginia.

Its shores are indented by numerous coves and several large deepwater harbours, the main ones at Saint John and St. Andrews in New Brunswick and Digby and Hantsport in Nova Scotia, all harbour towns that burgeoned during the great lumbering, shipping, and shipbuilding activity of the 19th and early 20th centuries.

Barrow, one of the country's last remaining industrial towns, was once home to the largest steelworks in the world and was a thriving centre of shipbuilding activity.

Or turn south and you're at the old shipyard, a vibrant center of shipbuilding activity throughout World War II.

After the war, when demand fell, shipbuilding activity decreased and thus the use of asbestos in naval yards was likely to have decreased.

Yet the school is only one of the group's non-shipbuilding activities.

One of them is Bobby's division, transportation, which includes shipbuilding — an activity that seems quaint in contemporary Boston.

There has been an increase in viticulture, and fishing and shipbuilding are other activities.

Coastal activities include shipbuilding, fishing, and the resort trade.

Some officials in Northern Ireland sought to play down the impact of the yard's problems, arguing that, as in many other parts of the world, high-technology businesses are supplanting old-economy activities like shipbuilding.